The Catholic Church in New Zealand is part of the worldwide Catholic Church under the leadership of the Pope in Rome, assisted by the Roman Curia, and with the New Zealand bishops.
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Wellington
Jean Baptiste Pompallier, first bishop of Oceania, residing in New Zealand, depicted on a glass-in-lead window in Tonga
The former Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, Christchurch, Francis Petre's largest completed work (1905)
The iconic Futuna Chapel, Wellington, was built in the 1960s and marked a deviation from traditional church architecture.
The Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, sometimes referred to as the Christchurch Basilica was a Catholic cathedral on Barbadoes Street in central Christchurch, New Zealand. It was the mother church o
Catholic Church in New Zealand
…in 1901 (in place of the destroyed St Mary's Cathedral), although it was not until 1984 that it became officially the cathedral. The highly esteemed Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, Christchurch, was opened in 1905. The latter three buildings were designed by the prominent New Zealand Catholic architect Francis Petre. In 1947 another seminary…
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The Cathedral (in 2009) with the Sisters of Our Lady of the Mission Chapel (later demolished in 2011) in the background
Detail of the front façade (in 2009). The central pediment was in the style of Sebastiano Serlio.